Michigan reported 1,526 new cases of coronavirus and 37 new deaths on Thursday, March 4.
Of the 37 deaths reported Thursday, 29 occurred previously and were identified through a review of vital records, which the state health department performs three times a week.
The state has an average of 1,132 new cases of COVID-19 per day and 21 new deaths per day in the past week. This is the second time in a few days that the seven-day case average has risen, and it is the highest weekly case average since February 8.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Michigan has reported 593,279 confirmed cases and 15,600 COVID-19-related deaths. The state also reported 59,310 probable cases and 989 probable deaths, in which a physician and / or antigen test determined COVID-19, but no confirmatory PCR test was performed.
(The graph above shows the Michigan 7-day continuous average of new confirmed coronavirus cases. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click the option just below the title to see the actual number of new cases reported per day.)
Of Michigan’s 83 counties, 71 reported new cases on Thursday. Wayne County led in cases and deaths with 218 and five, respectively.
Other counties with the highest case reporting included Macomb with 192, Oakland with 124, Kent with 94, Genesee with 77, Calhoun with 44, Kalamazoo with 43, Ottawa with 42, Saginaw with 37 and Livingston with 35.
Twenty-four counties reported new deaths, including Macomb, Saginaw and Berrien, each reporting three. Oakland, Kent, Ottawa and Lapeer counties reported two new deaths each.
The following counties reported a new death each: Genesee, Kalamazoo, Livingston, St. Clair, Washtenaw, Monroe, Jackson, Newaygo, Cass, Bay, Shiawassee, Barry, Ionia, Hillsdale, Arenac and Menominee.
Ingham County removed a death from its accumulated total.
(The graph above shows the 7-day moving average of deaths involving confirmed cases of coronavirus in Michigan. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click the option just below the title to see the real number of new deaths reported per day.)
Michigan hospitals were treating 876 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, including 229 patients in the ICU. This figure has been on the rise since last Thursday, February 25, when hospitals were treating 804 of these patients, 186 in the ICU.
Of the 46,170 diagnostic tests processed on Wednesday, 3.55% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The average rate of positivity in the last seven days was 3.7%.
As of Tuesday, Michigan had administered more than 2.35 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes about 1.49 million first doses and 856,104 second doses. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines recommend two doses given weeks apart.
Case report
The first is a graph showing new cases reported to the state each day for the past 30 days. This is based on when a confirmed coronavirus test is reported to the state, which means that the patient first became ill days before.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In some cases, a county reported a negative number (decline) in new daily cases, after a retroactive reclassification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In those cases, we subtract cases from the previous date and put 0 on the reported date.)
The next graph below shows new cases in the last 30 days based on the onset of symptoms. In this graph, the numbers for the most recent days are incomplete due to the time lag between people getting sick and getting the result of the confirmed coronavirus test, which can take up to a week or more.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
For more data across the state, visit the MLive coronavirus data page, here.
To find a test site near you, check the state’s online test finder here, send an email to [email protected] or call 888-535-6136 between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays.
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